<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alduin32</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alduin32</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:55:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alduin32" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alduin32 in "The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> False dichotomy. The recommendation is for people on SSRIs to also do therapy.<p>One problem with that is that SSRIs are much more accessible than therapy. In my country, they are fully covered by social security and procuring them is relatively easy, while therapy is too expensive for lots of people.<p>> If you read further in your [1] you'll see that the rate of side effects is not "in excess of 70%" but lower, and it depends on both the medication and the dose. Switching medications and changing doses is often sufficient to ameliorate some or all of these effects.<p>In my case, and according to studies I'm not the only one, the side effects can be persistent. Neither the doctors nor the medication's notice warned me of this. If I knew that when I was young, I would have made different choices.<p>SSRIs did help me, but it cost me a lot, and I still cry about it. Of course, there is no way to know if this is a better outcome for me than what would have happened if I managed to refuse to take them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43220686</link><dc:creator>alduin32</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43220686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43220686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alduin32 in "Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've opened an issue about the reordered attribute values (+ another bug I found). Tab pane switching stopped being slow (I suppose my laptop was simply overloaded, and I'm too used to things being fast even when it is).</p>
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<p>This is amazing, I had a bunch of work to do on some remote hosts this night and tried using isd as much as possible, to see how it can help me.<p>Some feedback :<p>- it is.. relatively slow ? especially when focusing on different panes (tab/shift+tab). on my machine it takes at least half a second to react<p>- the unit list is missing page-up/page-down handling<p>- in some unit attributes, the ordering of some values frequently changes (for example, on unstarted services, in `TriggeredBy`)<p>- it could be interesting to integrate the output of `systemd-analyse security`<p>Nice work !</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 07:19:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754667</link><dc:creator>alduin32</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754667</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alduin32 in "The fastest object was manhole cover that was blasted into space by nuclear test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's an interesting event, but this article is a bit misleading, and the title outright wrong : the object did not reach space in any meaningful way, and Robert Brownlee never said that it did. In fact, since meteors with a similar weight coming in at a third of the lower bound of the manhole's velocity can not reach the surface, we can assume that the manhole burned up in the atmosphere pretty quickly.<p>From <a href="https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html" rel="nofollow">https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html</a> :<p>> As usual, the facts never can catch up with the legend, so I am occasionally credited with launching a "man-hole cover" into space, and I am also vilified for being so stupid as not to understand masses and aerodynamics, etc, etc, and border on being a criminal for making such a claim.</p>
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<p>A first thing to test would be that your voltages are nominal, but the exact details depend on how many phases are coming from the transformer, how they are wired, and whether you are on a TT, TN-C-S or other kind of grounding system, which depends mostly on where you live. Also, you need to take your voltages both at low impedance (simulates a load) and at high impedance (negligible load, "classical" meters are generally high impedance).<p>Generally, you want to measure the voltage difference between live and neutral depending on the load. However, depending on the tools you have access to, taking this reading properly can be a bit tricky both because simple high-impendance multimeters can easily be tricked by ghost voltages caused by bad connections and inductions from other cables, and also because understanding what to measure requires knowing how is the electrical system wired.<p>If you know you are in a TT system with 240V between Live/Neutral, I can tell my procedure for inspecting neutrals. In a two-pole TN-C-S system with 120V between L1/Neutral and 240V between L1/L2, I suppose it would be similar, expect that we'd have to do more tests (both L1 and L2 to neutral, and I imagine also L1 to L2).<p>EDIT: a first simple check to do is to check, using any multimeter, if there is voltage drop in your office when the hairdryer is in use.</p>
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<p>> the hairdryer is still able to do something to affect the electricity in my office.<p>This may indicate that your neutral line is undersized and/or damaged.</p>
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<p>Type defaults are a nice addition, they were something I lacked a lot back when I was still writing Python code.<p>The new interpreter is nice, but I wish they had incorporated the display of variable values in the traceback (similarly to ipython's xmode attribute, or to traceback-with-variables), this is something I've always missed in Python.</p>
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<p>I agree with Josef Bacik, the constant trashing of btrfs is getting really annoying and disrespectful to the filesystem developers, and it's sad to see how another filesystem developer refers to btrfs.<p>The write-hole issue did take a long time to fix, and yes it's annoying that the fix requires full RMW cycles, and yes it's frustrating to know that the design of btrfs means that there probably won't be a better solution, but it doesn't mean that "people cannot rely on it after 10 years". Some people do rely on it, it serves them well, if it was that unreliable it wouldn't be the default filesystem choice on a major distribution.</p>
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<p>I've had a few cases data loss related to ZFS encryption, causing a total loss of a dataset and all of its ancestor snapshots. The key used by this dataset is simply missing from the keystore, and so it fails mounting with I/O error. We have no idea why or how could it happen, but the pool also had a <i>lot</i> of these "innocuous* bugs, while ZFS never reported a single error from the backing disks. This happened on two different full rebuilds (from scratch, using zpool-create and manual recreation of all datasets with rsync) of the same pool, but on the same hardware and with the same workload. I am 99.999% sure that this is caused by the native encryption code, probably compounded by sending very regular snapshots (not raw, though).<p>Weirdly, this only happened on a few datasets that were not used a lot, the datasets that have lots of IO have only had the innocuous errors (the ones that refer to deleted files).<p>I did try debugging some of this with a ZFS developer, but we were not able to recover the data, and digged deep enough to see that something was very wrong with these datasets (it was not just a bitflip somewhere, rather that dataset used a key from the keystore that was supposed to exist, but didn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:52:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41761403</link><dc:creator>alduin32</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41761403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41761403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alduin32 in "How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With climate change and our general impact on environment worsening each year, our relationship with technology is starting to be like a big elephant in the room. Do people really think a sustainable and equitable society is possible while having microprocessors and telecommunication devices in beds ?<p>This kind of luxury will always be reserved to the wealthiest in society, and its availability dependent on the relentless exploitation of land and human beings.</p>
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<p>That different IPv6 will still identify the subscriber, because it will have a shared prefix, usually statically allocated by the provider.</p>
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<p>I hope this call to action will come to some form of resolution, as I indeed feel quite uneasy with both the current state of the Nix project and with the involvement of contractors such as Anduril. I've lost good friends that died crossing borders to find a better life, and I'd prefer to stay away from projects involving the tracking of migrants by ML-trained drones running Haskell and NixOS. However, my current livelihood is built around Nix, so I cannot simply threaten to quit using and contributing to NixOS, and going back to Debian after the Nix experience would be quite frustrating.<p>I also have my own frustrations with some contributions to the Nix project, where my input and concerns were completely disregarded and ignored, in cases where I suspect that the interests of external companies (heavily invested in Nix) played a big part.</p>
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<p>Well that's the thing, we really don't understand the long-term effects of SSRIs. PSSD[1] is a thing, reports of long-term anhedonia and/or emotional numbness after quitting SSRIs are widespread.<p>The parent poser never said anything about "evil big pharama mind control", however "pharma companies trying to make money disregarding long-term health of patients" is not a particularly narrow-minded view, anti-depressants are used to put people back to work disregarding their long-term health, and widespread over-prescription of SSRIs by physicians (not even psychiatrists), even to children, is a thing as well.<p>If 15 years ago, when I was 16, someone had told me that these meds would potentially make me lose the ability to feel pleasure, I probably would'nt haven taken them, but there was no such warning.</p>
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<p>This seems a valid concern to me. I am on the edge of a city, on one side there are endless buildings, and on the other side it's a big open park with some farmland. It's still technically in the city, so there are no stray rats as the city euthanizes them frequently, and there are rats everywhere. My house is full of holes, and they have dozens of ways to come in. I see them frequently.<p>Of course, neighbors have started using more and more rat poison, so sometimes I do see some rats dead on the ground, rotting in the sun. And recently, I've started seeing dead raptors in the farmland close to us.</p>
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<p>A marriage does not equate to submission, but patriarchal issues in current marriages are still very much present.</p>
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<p>> I promptly deleted the new-account-going-to-same-mail and breathed normally again...<p>I think at that point I would just have been too scared that this would cascade-delete the old account as well ^^</p>
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<p>So I work mostly with fiber, which is a bit different than DOCSIS in terms of demarcation and interoperability, but at least with fiber, these economies of scale in management can also be realized without having this unified management platform, although it can indeed impact the revenue stream. I work at an ISP where LAN management is an add-on option (that most users take), and so we maintain this uniformity :<p>- unmanaged clients ("power users") get an ONT that is very easy to monitor remotely, and we never had a situation where they were unable to setup a DHCP client<p>- managed clients pay a bit more and get an AP/router that they cannot directly configure, except for things like the wifi password and some NAT mappings.<p>It would not make sense to price it this way if we were selling data about their home network, and I suppose that's part of the reason other big ISPs here prohibit their users from connecting to the ONT directly.</p>
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<p>I love email, and to me it is a very important part of our infrastructure, but it is quite cursed as an arbitrary transport. The semantics are very complex, and any transported data will generally need to be encoded as base64, which is very inefficient.<p>You also need to add misbehaving clients on your list of things not to use with a message-queue, just opening the queue's folder on Outlook to inspect it may be enough to completely corrupt it (Outlook will happily reorder, even rewrite, header fields of incoming messages, replicate messages to infinity, or who knows what else).<p>I'd be worried to have a message queue that is compatible with such a cursed ecosystem and transport protocol.</p>
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<p>I don't know how it works in the UK, but here in France there are many commercial ISPs that cannot provide IPv6 because the underlying infrastructure does not support it.<p>Yes, ideally, an infrastructure provider should not dictate what kind of IP packets the commercial ISP can use, and there are dozens of technologies that would allow them to provide transports that don't care about the routing layer, but in practice, these providers (that we never really hear about as end-users) often make very bizarre choices, for example setting up a complex DHCP interception schemes that feed both the OLT to "open the port" and a BGP route server to announce connected clients at the collection point, of course not supporting IPv6.<p>In one of the ISPs I work for, we literally have /48s assigned to all of our clients, but the infrastructure provider's doesn't route them to us : IPv6 traffic is rejected at both ends of the transport. The ticket has been open for years (IPv6 was supposed to be part of the network they were commissioned to build), and insiders told me that they had difficulties adapting their transport system for IPv6.<p>We may end up having to tunnel IPv6 through IPv4 to our clients, but we try to fight against that so that the infrastructure provider doesn't declare the problem "fixed" and decide that the proper way for ISPs to provide IPv6 is to tunnel it through IPv4 so that they don't have to change anything.</p>
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<p>I wonder why we didn't use a framed representation rather than delimiters that have to be searched for (which isn't so simple). It makes writing a streaming MIME parser much harder. With a compulsory Content-Length things would be much easier.<p>At least with multipart/form-data we get to avoid transfer encodings, which are also quite annoying to handle (especially as they can be nested, which is probably the worst aspect of RFC2046).</p>
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